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The Ultimate Sports Road Trip » Blog Archive » Powe-ly Cow!!!!(Game 2) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:47:07 +0000

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Nfl » Wanna keep the Bills here? Buy season tickets!!! — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:07:42 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:00:05 +0000

I’ve been considering season tickets for next year since that Lynch touchdown pass in the Cinci game. This would be the first year I could actually afford the tix, and I share your sentiment on a strong season ticket base.

It’s a decision that won’t be made for a month or two, but definitely let us know what you decide, guys.

By: twoeightnine

twoeightnine — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:42:16 +0000

You know Peter, you might have a second one. I’ve basically been out of the area since I was 18 so I could never buy them. After this season I was psyched for next year, thinking I just might do it. Then after the events of the past couple of weeks I didn’t want to give any money to Ralph. But you’re right, I’m supporting the Bills team, not Ralph.

Now if I can just come up with the money.

By: Peter Farrell

Peter Farrell — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:04:23 +0000

Ya know Kate, it’s really hard to put together a Sabres post game report while reading that last comment laughing myself silly here. Darn you:)

@ Mark, you’re right. In the big picture the great unwashed have little or no power in this. The best the little folk can do is get to the box office and show that we are a viable NFL entity for the future as best we can and hope for the best.

By: Kate(bits)

Kate(bits) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:02:17 +0000

Okay, fine. I’ll start a successful company and then buy a luxury suite, so that some other long suffering rich business man doesn’t have to. I’m on it.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:15:23 +0000

sad to say i think the issue isnt so much guaranteeing sellouts but selling premium luxury suites. so…start up a big company w. nice profits and use some bills luxury suites to entertain clients and nowwww you’re making the bills bottom line look healthier.

but us peasants…our common folk seats mean nothing in the economic structure of the NFL.

By: Peter Farrell

Peter Farrell — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:05:59 +0000

OK! There’s one….how ’bout some more!

Seriously, I can understand why season ticket holders wish to bail feeling abused by Ralph comments. Yet the abandonment of the team by fans of the Bills seems to be part of what the Toronto folk, and possibly some in Bills heirarchy may want in order to pry this team out of WNY.

F’em. I know one thing above all else, and that is that I’ve never been to a Bills game because I want to see Ralph Wilson. I could care less what he thinks about us or what he wishes to do with this team.

I do care that this team stays here after he is no longer the owner. And I know that not going to games at this critical time will NOT help that cause at all. We, as fans need to show the NFL that we are a viable market. And the best way to do that is to fill that house on a season ticket basis like many big market(NY) and small market(Green Bay) teams across the NFL do.

A longshot, considering it’s never been done here? Sure. But remember how just five years ago you could shoot a cannon through HSBC Arena on many a night?? How times have changed there….keep the faith.

By: Kate(bits)

Kate(bits) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:56:08 +0000

Thanks for writing this. I have been living in Buffalo for almost seven years now, and I finally got sucked into the Buffalo sports scene last spring because of the Sabres. I never ONCE considered buying season tickets to the Bills until a few days ago. I have absolute respect for the anger that longtime fans must be feeling right now, and I think canceling season tickets is a very legitimate and worthwhile form of protest. I wonder if this might be an opportunity for me, a new sports fan, and a relatively new WNYer to take some of the pressure off of my fellow Buffalonians who are weary after of years of abuse. I’ll buy a season ticket, so that some longtime suffering fan doesn’t have to.

I dunno. This is a tough one.

By: Football » Wanna keep the Bills here? Buy season tickets!!!

Football » Wanna keep the Bills here? Buy season tickets!!! — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:03:36 +0000

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